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Richard B. Scudder Co-founder of MediaNews Group Richard B. Scudder, 99, co-founder and former chairman of MediaNews Group Inc., the nation's second-largest newspaper company, who also helped invent a process allowing newsprint to be recycled, died Wednesday at his home in Atlantic Highlands, N.J. Scudder was born May 13, 1913, into a newspaper family in Newark, N.J. His grandfather founded the Newark Evening News and his father ran it. After receiving an economics degree from Princeton University, Scudder worked as a reporter for the Boston Herald, then joined the Evening News as a reporter in 1938. He took over from his father as publisher of the Evening News in 1952 and held the...

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Richard B. Scudder
Co-founder of MediaNews Group
Richard B. Scudder, 99, co-founder and former chairman of MediaNews Group Inc., the nation's second-largest newspaper company, who also helped invent a process allowing newsprint to be recycled, died...